Whistleblower WikiLeaks has registered in media-friendly Iceland its first known legal entity — a business that so far has no office or activity — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of the men responsible for the grotesque defacing of Facebook tribute pages, including that of dead Melbourne teen Cameron Lowe, is a high-ranking Ku Klux Klan member who served two years in jail for viciously beating a 16-year-old Latino boy.
Jarred Hensley, 28, from Cincinnati, Ohio, outed himself to a pair of Australian vigilantes on a website chat room used by his group to organise and gloat about desecrating scores of Facebook tribute pages — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The RSPCA has described a sentence given to a man who beat, kicked and threw a puppy as inadequate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Remember the old saying about being innocent until proven guilty
? Well, the latest version of New Zealand’s Copyright Amendment Bill has a farcical reversal of this, which has created rightful outrage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The amount of unpaid overtime Australians work is again in the spotlight, with a new survey revealing four in five overtime workers want to work fewer hours — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Consumer protection laws are being exploited as part of a new type of ticketing scam, the BBC has learnt — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The NSW Greens have called for a full inquiry into NSW laws that allow religious schools to discriminate against students and teachers on the basis of sexual orientation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
South Australia is the latest state to make a move towards legislating for same-sex marriage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
South Africa’s largest hospital group has admitted it received millions of dollars for illegal kidney transplant operations performed at one of its facilities — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Opinions are divided over whether the High Court’s ruling on South Australia’s anti-bikie laws will have implications for other states with similar legislation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Today, on World Contraception Day, the Surya clinic in Patna city in the Indian state of Bihar will, as always, be full of women, their children and their travel companions, waiting to see the doctors for family planning services. The female doctors are young, many recent graduates of the medical colleges, and sometimes pairing up to counsel clients on contraceptive methods. The government of India has accredited this private clinic run by the Janani network so that women opting for birth control pills, a 10-year IUD, or a three-month injectable contraceptive pay nothing. The government reimburses private clinics offering these services — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US jury has ordered a Minnesota woman to pay $US1.5 million ($1.47m) for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case — via The Sydney Morning Herald
The nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, found its access to the Internet severed by a massive denial of service attack, according to a report by Arbor Networks.
The source or motivation of the attack isn’t known, but it is believed that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have targeted the country’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunication (or PTT), the main conduit for Internet traffic in and out of the authoritarian nation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Writer Monica Gaudio was surprised to see an old article of hers appear in Cooks Source, a publication for food lovers in Western New England
. So she wrote the magazine’s editor to ask how they got it. The reply: insanity — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Or he’s not. I don’t care. He is still my son. And he is 5. And I am his mother. And if you have a problem with anything mentioned above, I don’t want to know you.
I have gone back and forth on whether I wanted to post something more in-depth about my sweet boy and his choice of Halloween costume. Or more specifically, the reactions to it. I figure if I’m still irked by it a few days later, I may as well go ahead and post my thoughts — via littlemuscle.newsvine.com
Popular art site DeviantART has removed the third gender option and now requires all members to chose either male or female, even those who don’t identify as either.
My first question: Why does gender matter to DeviantART? — via canuckjacq.newsvine.com
As part of its ongoing punishment of any institute or company that defends copyright, Anonymous has now taken down the website of The United States Copyright Office. The group managed to take copyright.gov offline for half an hour. After that the website started to respond again slowly, with occasional outages — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We’re not concerned about piracy,
said George Scotti, Springer Verlag’s director of channel marketing, when asked about the Springer e-book program, which allows institutional customers to lend Springer e-books without DRM protection. Seventy percent of Springer’s business comes from big academic and research libraries, Scotti said, and they are adamant that they don’t want DRM or other such restrictions on the e-books they buy from Springer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Indigenous advocacy group Generation One has apologised to an Aboriginal woman who says her job application was turned down because her skin was not dark enough — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In an effort to reduce illicit file-sharing, draft legislation was passed in Finland last week which will require Internet service providers to send letters to customers suspected of unauthorized sharing. The warnings will be initiated by copyright owners, but at no stage will Internet subscribers’ identities be compromised. A three strikes-style regime is not on the agenda — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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